Patent ductus arteriosus is a congenital heart defect that requires timely surgery.

Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a congenital cardiac defect that occurs when the ductus arteriosus fails to close. The result is a persistent communication between the aorta and pulmonary artery, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with surgical ligation, transcatheter closure of the patent ductus arteriosus in infants and neonates ...

Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), one of the more common cardiac defects present at birth, is the persistence of an opening between the pulmonary artery and aorta. This opening is as a result of failure ...

Abbott announced that the FDA approved a closure device for the treatment of premature babies with patent ductus arteriosus who are nonresponsive to medical management. The Amplatzer Piccolo occluder ...

SHOULD closure of a patent ductus arteriosus with reversal of flow be attempted? If so, how can the high surgical mortality hitherto reported 1–3 be reduced? An attempt is made to answer these ...

About The Study: In extremely preterm infants with a protocol-defined patent ductus arteriosus, death or bronchopulmonary dysplasia did not differ between the expectant management group and the active ...

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY—contrast visualization of the heart and great vessels — was first made a practical procedure by Robb and Steinberg 1 in 1938. In subsequent reports these authors have described in ...

Narayana Health City has performed a PDA (Patent Ductus Arteriosus) stenting surgery on conjoined twins with a shared heart. The hospital has said that it is the region's maiden thoracopagus surgery.

Pediatric experts from Le Bonheur’s Heart Institute and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will present lectures, posters, abstracts and hands-on workshops. Pediatric experts from Le ...